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Abstract

A basic requirement of autonomous vehicles is that of guaranteeing the safety of the vehicle by avoiding hazardous situations. This paper analyses this requirement in general terms of real-time response, and throughput. Several nondimensional expressions emerge which characterize requirements in canonical form.